Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barely fluttered at last week's 273-mile Grand Prix of France before Clark's green-and-yellow Lotus shot into the lead. Roaring down Reims's long straightaway at 180 m.p.h., Clark set a new lap record of 131.147 m.p.h., and coasted across the finish line more than 1 min. ahead. The victory, Clark's third in 22 days, ran his season's point total to 27,* and gave him a virtual hammerlock on the 1963 Grand Prix championship. "It's a bit obvious, isn't it," said a rival driver. "Clark...
What the text has above all else is color. Seale and his collaborators have captured it and supplemented it beautifully. Visually the show is a treat from start to finish. William Pitkin's set is simple: a semicircular runway articulated by six poles topped with crowns. This provides wide flexibility. A throne or priedieu can be wisked in or out, coats-of-arms and tapestries can be lowered, and flags, rope-ladders, or drapes can be run up the poles, not to mention pennons carried by supernumeraries...
...Tyll proved that his speed is unbeatable in the trick event. The National champion and recent winner of the Masters title added the North American crown to his laurels. Although his planned trick run of 3399 points was comfortably above his own Eastern record, Al lost 53 points to finish with 3346, only nine points below the record...
...sweeping revision of the provisions for an Honors degree in General Studies. The new legislation opens the CLGS to all seniors with the required number of honor grades, regardless of whether or not they plan to write a thesis--or whether they start one and do not finish...
...Boris Pasternak (described as looking "at the same time like an Arab and his horse") believes it is "no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated." Venerable Ezra Pound, 77, "stuck" and unable to finish his epic Cantos, says, "The question is. am I dead?" Katherine Anne Porter gloomily concludes, "Misunderstanding and separation are the natural conditions...